Genesis 43:16

Modern English Version

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the house steward, “Bring these men home, slaughter an animal and prepare it, for these men will dine with me at noon.”

Cross References

Genesis 15:2

But Abram said, “Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

Genesis 21:8

So the child grew and was weaned. Then Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

Genesis 26:30

Then he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

Genesis 31:54

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his kinsmen to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain.

Genesis 43:17

The man did as Joseph ordered, so the man brought the men into Joseph’s house.

Genesis 43:19

They approached the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke with him at the entrance of the house.

Genesis 44:1

Then he commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s money in the mouth of his sack.

Genesis 44:4

When they were gone out of the city, but not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Get up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?

Proverbs 9:2

She has slaughtered her meat; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table.

1 Samuel 25:11

Should I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat, that which I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men whose origins are unknown?”